Present Your Startup 2017 winners: Maester, Tinkr and Stagefinder.nl

Yesterday were the Present Your Startup 2017 finals, six startups battled their way through the quest for investment and a record amount was raised live on stage!

Winner Maester received 410k on stage

From the finalists, Maester, the e-learning platform for corporates, raised the impressive amount of 410.000 euro investment on stage. 40.000 euro was raised by Tinkr, the online platform connecting IT students with tech corporates and a few smaller investments were made.

Present Your Startup 2017 winners

Overall winner is Maester, with Tim van Pappelendam. Besides the raised amount, he also will pitch his idea during Present Your Startup New York 2018, offered by Rabobank Haarlem and Omstreken. To prepare for this, he will be introduced to the top of the Innovation Rabobank Groep.
The Public Choice award goes to Stagefinder.nl with Michael Salmagne. Salmagne will pitch at the NK Pitching for Entrepreneurs initiated by Nathalie Mangelaars.

Sabine de Witte successfully failed her own startup and embraced the lessons she learned to connect startups and investors. She helps startups with pr and online communications, writes about tech as a journalist, judges events as a ‘pitch bitch’ and travels the world as startup spotter.